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Oct 13, 2015 at 03:43 pm by admin

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Healthcare Briefs

Oct 05, 2015 at 03:19 pm by admin

One-third of the total U.S. prescription-drug spending in 2014 went to specialty drugs which made spending grow by 27 percent to $124 billion.The cost of insulin has increased.... Read More

Doctor’s Company Coaches Clients on Lifestyle Changes

Oct 05, 2015 at 03:10 pm by admin

For David Wright, MD, the guiding principles for both his medical practice and the ultimate creation of his health management company, Adventia, started to form in 1979 and to.... Read More

Good Shepherd’s Aim: Mission-Minded; Not Money-Focused

Oct 05, 2015 at 03:03 pm by admin

After two years of planning – and untold prayers of petition – Philip J. Baker, Pharm. D., witnessed a mission come to life when Good Shepherd Health opened on September 9.The.... Read More

Hill Points Out Need for More Who Do What He Does

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:54 pm by admin

To put it simply, Paul Hill is a geriatric psychiatrist because he likes older people. He always has.When he was a boy growing up in midtown Memphis, his father’s mother lived.... Read More

Frederick Boop Continues to Unravel Secrets in a Three-Pound Universe

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:49 pm by admin

Scientists sometimes call the human brain a “three-pound universe.” In the case of Dr. Frederick Boop, it’s a universe where he is still blazing trails, discovering marvels an.... Read More

Two Memphis Surgeons Performing New Heart, Chest, Lung Procedures

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:41 pm by admin

Two Mid-South surgeons with Baptist Medical Group now are using the skills learned in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery fellowship training in Boston to offer alternatives t.... Read More

Memphis Doctors’ Vaccine to be Used in Canadian Clinical Trial

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:35 pm by admin

StreptAnova® a vaccine invented by two Memphis doctors that is designed to prevent group A streptococcal (GAS) infections, will be used in a Phase 1 clinical trial to be condu.... Read More

Dean of UTHSC College of Pharmacy Honored by Pharmaceutical Association

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:33 pm by admin

Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, dean and professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received the Chaunc.... Read More

West Cancer Center Receives Multi-Million Dollar Gift from Moores

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:32 pm by admin

West Cancer Center has received what officials call “a significant gift” from Jack and Betty Moore to The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research, the fundr.... Read More

UTHSC’s Michio Kurosu Receives $431,000 Grant from NIH

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:28 pm by admin

Michio Kurosu, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has r.... Read More

Resurrection Health Purchases Family Medicine Residency Program

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:27 pm by admin

Resurrection Health, a faith-based, evangelical healthcare provider offering both adult and pediatric primary and in-patient care, has acquired a medicine residency program fo.... Read More

Methodist South Begins Expansion of Emergency Department in Whitehaven

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:25 pm by admin

Methodist South has begun construction to expand its emergency department in the Whitehaven facility.The expansion is a result of a certificate of need awarded to Methodist So.... Read More

Memphis-based Lifeblood Has Become Part of Blood Systems

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:08 pm by admin

Lifeblood, headquartered in Memphis and the region’s only non-profit volunteer blood center, has become part of Blood Systems, one of the nation’s oldest and largest non-profi.... Read More

Greg L. Thompson Named President of LifeLinc Anesthesia

Oct 05, 2015 at 01:58 pm by admin

Greg L. Thompson, MD, has been named president of Memphis-based LifeLinc Corporation, which manages anesthesia practices in 10 states under the LifeLinc Anesthesia banner.Thom.... Read More